From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale•com>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel•crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org, sr@denx•de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: add of_find_next_property and of_get_aliased_index
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:12:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4863B1C1.1060300@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c293d4d144094e5b0311b703e64893dc@kernel.crashing.org>
Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> Well, yes, your suggested code doesn't allow punctuation either; but
> that wasn't my point, it doesn't allow numbers in names. Why don't
> you just parse a number from the end?
Oh, you mean start at the end and go backwards? Hmmm, I guess I could do that.
> The only thing a platform should ever use aliases for is if it needs
> to (for whatever purpose) find a specific device, that it cannot
> identify otherwise (via "reg", ...). And then that platform code
> should look up the device by the alias, not look up the alias by the
> device -- there is no 1-1 mapping from device to alias!
Hmmm, I hadn't through about that. I guess this patch isn't such a great idea
after all. I rescind it.
--
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-26 15:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-25 20:05 [PATCH] powerpc: add of_find_next_property and of_get_aliased_index Timur Tabi
2008-06-25 20:22 ` Segher Boessenkool
2008-06-25 20:27 ` Timur Tabi
2008-06-25 23:35 ` Segher Boessenkool
2008-06-26 15:12 ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2008-06-26 15:51 ` Stefan Roese
2008-06-26 15:55 ` Timur Tabi
2008-06-26 18:27 ` [PATCH] powerpc: add of_find_next_property andof_get_aliased_index Sean MacLennan
2008-06-26 18:29 ` Timur Tabi
2008-06-26 18:41 ` Stefan Roese
2008-06-27 1:30 ` David Gibson
2008-07-03 13:33 ` Josh Boyer
2008-07-03 13:43 ` Stefan Roese
2008-06-25 23:51 ` [PATCH] powerpc: add of_find_next_property and of_get_aliased_index Josh Boyer
2008-06-26 10:57 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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